As Isaac Netown is reputed to have said, "If I have seen further ahead it is because I have stood on the backs of giants!"
First, we would like to thank the traders that generate the material for our quantitative analysis. It is easy to forget, beyond the computers, prices are a domain of humans and judgment.
Secondly, we thank the exchanges for organizing the markets.
There are a lot of great software projects on the web. Our web app uses hundreds of libraries (directly or otherwise) and it would be unfair to single out just a few. Thanks to the opensource community in general!